County teams may be thrown out of the All-Ireland championships if there is a coronavirus outbreak, according to GAA president John Horan.
The Covid-19 pandemic forced the GAA to redraw the senior hurling and football provincial and All-Ireland formats for the year, pushing the start of the competitions back to the end of October, with finals penciled in for just before Christmas.
That leaves very little room for manoeuvre and in the event that there is an outbreak, teams will be asked to "step aside". Many clubs across the country have been forced to stand down while outbreaks have been dealt with. "I think everybody getting involved in this will actually take on board and we will have protocols in place that if a county goes down, because